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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
Pillow Ea;il FOR Wheat.
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IL stubble ground is to be put in fall
wheat the pillow can net be started too
early. Ii the shocks are taken off the
ground as soon as the grain has cured
enough for the NOW or stack, ana the
ground is broken at once, the most i'm
portant step in successful wheat-growing
has been taken. The condition of the
seed bed is of more Importance in the
growing of small grains than of cultiya-
tsd crops, because making the condition
of the ground favorable to ths yielding
Of plant food is impossible after the
grain is sown. OF the small grains, fall
wheat most demands a well -prepared
seed bed, for oats do not have to pass
through our trying winters, while fall rye
is more hardy. The seed bed most favor
able 10 fall wheat is broken moderately
deep, but not deeper than the harrow and
roller will have effect; thoroughly fined
and as thoroughly compacted. Early
blowing makes it possible for us to make
such a seed bed, and with the least ex.
penditure. The weather is dry and hot
after harvest, and rapidly dries and
hardens, the ground; if we delay blowing
the labor is severer, and the ground
breaks into hard Jumps, difficult to re-
duce Though we use the harrow and
roller persistently, we do not get the
seed bed in prime condition. The Jumps
are not crumbled or pulyerized, but are
divided only. At the end of our labor We
have only small cIods, but clods neyerthe
less. The air therefore penetrates the
soil, and finishes the drying, hardening
process. The light showers that fall are
soon dissipated. The clods can not bt
compacted. Hence the wheat when sowr
is slow to terminate; the plant finds onl!
a scanty supply of food, and their roots
have not solid supports to cling to during
! the winter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
FARM NOTES

Some recent decisions made by Secre-
tary Lamar regarding the requirements
of the pre-emption law will be of interest
to those occupying public lands. John J.
Skohen, after pre-em ptiHg land in the
Aberdeen land district in Dakota, still re-
tanned an interest in store where he
worked daily. It was decided that in so
doing, it did not effect his good faith in
making entry provided that circumstan-
ces showed that he complied with the law
as to- inhabitancy and improvement.
Some poultry keepers have great faith
in coal oil as preventative against chol-
era, aud once or twice O week they give
their fowls a meal of corn that has been
soaked in coal OIL or else mix a dose OF
the oil in the soft feed. Don't do it.
Coal oil will not prevent or cure cholera
and it will make the eggs and flesh OF
fowls so feed taste worse than the onion
tiayorsd eggs and ckichens.
There has been an everlasting lot of
rubbish written about the table qualities
of the different breeds of fowls. Most
breeders claim that the breeds which they
have for sale are superior table fowls
meat rich, ne-grained, tender, and juicy,
and all that, and that chickens of other
breeds are tough, dry, coarse-grained
stringy and tasteless.' Now tie plain
truth of the matter is, there is but little
difference in the flesh of the different
breeds, provided the chickens are of the
same age, have been raised alike and cook
ed alike.
Statistician Dodge, of the government
department of agriculture, having beer
criticised somewhat concerning his recen
estimate of the tobacco crop defends hi
position thus: We know that in some
states the tobacco leaf average this yea
is smaller than last year. But we are
confident the reduction is not SO large al
the critics claim The estimate referred
to put the tobacco acreage in the severa
tobacco states at from to 80 per cen
less than last year, We think that j
about the figure. Our estimates wer,
based upon the first set of reports reoeiv
ed upon the tobacco planting, and in
few weeks we shall have another set o
reports and issue an estimate which W,
hope will be as exact as it is possible K
make it,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
WASHINGTON.

The collections of internal revenue
for July last we're Sl0,o97, 379 being 1851
All more than the receipts during the
same month of last year. There was
decrease of $l7S,540 in the collections on
spirits. an increase of S2l2,700 on tobae,
co, an increase of S204,727 on fermented
LIQUORS, and decrease of S3,296 on ms
ceilaneous objects The receipts from
oleomargRriue were S25l,oIo'
WuEN Secretary Fairchild left here
several days ago it was his intention 70
remain away at least month. he was
expected home tonight. The sudden
change in his plans is said to be due to a
desire on the part of the president to
confer with him in regard to treatment
of the tariff and the financial question IN
his next annual message TO congress
Acting President Oberly, for the Unit
ed States ciyil.serylce commission mas
written an important letter to Chafles
" Rowland, chairman of the eiyil-serVlce
hoard Of examiners for the Cinoinnatl
nostoflice from which the following Is e1-
tracted.
"One Of the fundamental principles OF
40 civil-seryice rules as prescribed by
,he civil service act is that no person N
the public service is for that reason l nm
der any obligations 20 render any poiia
cal service, aud that he shall not be re-
moved or otherwise prejudioed for re
fusiug to do So"
aRule 5 provides that No question II
any examination, proceeding by or unael
the commission of examiners, shan eau
for the expression OF disclosure Ct ans
noIitical opinion or athiation
aud If such opinion or utilization %
known no discrimination shall be macs
~ the examiners, the commission' 81 the
appointing power.
| arr YcASrst Politics CUT NO FIeCRE'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
Marketing Honey
Colorado Farm


How shall we market our boo.
the most money out of ity In III
place, we must grade our honev ~.
three grades: (l) this best ana
white comb honey, straight cor,
nice, clean one pound section how
the light amber honey and those 49,,
that may have crooked combs, lS /
honey that may be dark, and tbo,
tions with cells only partly fu,5 =
for comb honey. For extracted va
have two grades, first and second
thing below that we would feed b,,a
the bees for winter use.
What next? Having your bor.,
lected as above, scrape all section, \
frem bits of comb and propole, X,
the bees manage to get on the bore
or less, using nice, clean, fresb.o,,.
section boxes. Take the sample. \ /
grocers and ask a fair price for 4
not rush your crop on the msrks, T.,
lump, for by so doing you oversize, !,
in consequence reduce the price N
you will find up hill work in adys,,,
again later on in the season. M.
way to keep and get good fair pr,s
honey would be TO have one reliabs 4
handle all the honey, directly fro-
bee-keepers. Produces should vo,t
gether. By so doing they wovD
undersell each other and ali would
the same price for the same grad.
honey. Having established a VA,
depot" wholesale and retail grocev
others wishing to pnrehase would 70
rect to headquarters, pay their nu
and take their choice, The firm hsD5i
tho honoy would buy direct from
producer, or sell for them on comni
advancing, perhaps, small amount.
their consignments. We have no ID
but what honey depot establ:ss
above, would pay all parties Interest,"
fair sum and prove a satisfactory b
ness. What have you to say on The I
ter, brother, bee-keeper? Let Us
your views on the subject. If the sb
plan were carried out there would BE-
| glut and fair prices could be mainsr
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

EVERY trace of the Colorado beetle has
been destroyed in Germany by the timely
use of disinfecants and tilling of the
fields in which the pest appeared.
RAwsoN. Ohio, with 1900 inhabitants,
was the scene OF a great conAagratlon
Tuesday. Half of the town was destroy ed,
and the loss is estimated at 100000.
A rBREsurNG engine exploded Tuesday
morning, audWilliam Bsmphus was blown
TO pieces, aad five other persons were
wounded, three of them fatally.
JACKsoN's silk mill and the Grant Loco
motive Works at Paterson, n j. were
destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000,
and COO persons are out OF employment.
ON Saturday night Thompson's hard
ware store in Montreal was burned; loss,
$4,000. Darling 4 Co.'s hardware store
was damaged chiefly by water to the
amount of $4,000.
TuE Arlington Hotel at Spgertown,
Pa WIS burned early Thursday morning
causing a loss of about $4,000 The
guests who narrowly escaped LOST all their
property.
reported that the schooner Mag
ara, Of the Australasia tow, broke adrift
Of Whitetish point and foundered with
all hands, including the captains family,
10 in number.
A srAHx from an engine iguited the
bedding OF a carload of tine cattle en-
route from Clinton, H., to the Atlanta
fair. Most of the animals were roasted
20 death The others we're frightfully
burned, and had to be put to death.
TIE schooner BluebSn went TO pieces
of sheboygun, Wis, the crew being saved
by the life-saying corps The Bluebell
was en- route for Milwaukee, laden with
cedar posts.
A NUMBER of Reading railway cars
we're wrecked az Williamsport, Pa, by a
collision between a freight and a gravel
train. The financial loss is $4,000.
A brakeman named Michael Joyce was
killed,
FmE IN p tenement at No. 522 Fiftieth
street, New York, caused fearful panic
among the inmates, the occupants at
Nos. SIS and $50 also sharing in the
fright Many persons were injured
but nobody sustained any fatal wounds
The occupants lost every thing they poss'
essed
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

the inquest on the body of Mrs, yander-
man, wife of leading druggist, who died
under peculiar circumstances. The yer
dict was that deceased came to her
death by poison placed in her food by a
servant at the direction of Yanderman.
He was arrested.
FRANK ROLLINS, aged II, stabbed and
killed Frank What, aged 10, at Column
bus, Kan. The murder occurred at a
Sunday school, and was the result of a
quarrel between the young men brought
about by each cutting off the hair from
the others mastache.
Henry WYrick, q tie-chopper, stabbed
and killed Archie Mcmillan in the Usage
hills, twenty-five miles from Jefferson
City, Mo. The tie-choppers we're all
drunk and engaging in a general riot,
and Mcmillan was killed while trying to
stop the row.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
A Dairy Calculation.
Chicago Journal

There are herds of cows that average
S25 or $50 for the season; an average
meaua the middle between extremes. The
extremes of product of ordinary herds
will vary from S15 to $40 for the milking
season. If tn best cows pay $50 year
profit, the poorest live at a loss of so
each, That is, if these COWS were killed
and buried the owner would oe $40 a
year in his pocket. At 81 re, 100 pounds
of milk the poorest COW would make only
1900 pounds of milk in the factory sea-
son, and there are thousands of COWS that
do no better than this Another waste is
the use of the most costly foods or the
actual stinting OF food. A good COW fed
only on pasture Will always pay double
the cost of 4 or . pounds of bran daily IN
milk OF butter
This is more especially true OF winter
feeding, when straw may be mixed with
hay, and the difference in value of straw
spent in bran viii make the feed worth
more for product than il all hay were
fed
The above is bat an example and the
reader may take it as type for thought
ful consideration in his own special cir
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

From these provisions of the law and
rules it is conceded: First, that it is I'M
lawful to ask an applicant for appoint
ment under tho ciyil service law to di-
vulpe ais political opinions or affiliations.
Second, that if the appointing officer as
certain in any way what are the political
opinions or affiliations of any applicant
for appointment it is unlawful in him TO
therefore either discriminate in the APP
plicant's favor or against MIN; that 1t Is
unlawful ia the appointing officer to APP
point an eligible for the reason that he Is
or is not democrat or to refuse to APP
point an eligible for the reason that he
is or is not republican, and vice versa.
Third, that it is unlawful TO remove any
person from the public service for re-
fusiug to render political service.
MERIT THE TEST OF APPOINTMENT.
"The law fairly construed is that en-
trance to the assifed civil service shall
be upon the rnurit of tie applicant with
out regard to Lis political opinions or
Affiliations, and that continuance in the
service shall be upon the employees merit
or affiliations.
Therefore, the appointing officer who
appoints or refuses to appoint an appli-
cant because the applicant does or does
not entertain cerrain political opinions
violates the law, aud an appointing officer
who removes an employe because the
employe refuses to render political service
in accordance with the wishes of the ap-
pointing of1icer-because he is not poll
ticgl partisan of the appointing officer
also violates the law.
Entertaining these views the commits
sion replies to your question by saying
tnsl, in the opinion of the commission
the postmaster at Cincinnati cannot law
fully remove any carrier or clerk for the
reason that the carrier or clerk belong;
to the political party to which the post
master is opposed; that he can lawfully
remove no person from the classified
postal service at Cincinnati except foI
some other cause than the employees pc
/ litical opinions or affiliations.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
THE SECRET DRAWER.
Tsnple Bar.


In idle mood touched the springs
That opened wide the secret drawer,
To gaze on half-torsotton thinzs
That walked the memories or yore;
Small scraps of letters loosely tied
With silken bands of faded blue,
Containing words or love and pride
Wruug from my heart when life was new.
lock of radiant golden hair
That once adorned "A glorious head,
OF a young angel heavenly fair
And long since numbered with the dead =
A dark brown tress--the sole remains
OF a brave woman lost and gone,
The partner OF my joys and pains,
Whose smile made sunlight where it shone
| sighed, l kissed them like a fool
Although perhaps the fool was wise
With wisdom learned in sorrows school
Who saw the truth through all disguise.
And taking counsel With my thought
| asked myself, mid haze OF tears.
why these fond relics, fancY-fraught,
Should live beyond my span Of years
Live with their tale Of thought or deed,
For merchandise in scandals mart,
To satisfy the camorous greed
or scribblers who'd dissect my heart
When | lay slumbering In the mold,
Unweeting of Fames noisy blast
And sell for miserable gold
The sacred secrets of the pastY
To build romanees from my life,
or weave the lies that seem ike truth
From shadows Of long ended strife
Aud unknown ngonies OF youth:
Take them, ye fl4mes such safe is best
All but the lock OF hair / crave
Towear upon my living breast,
Aud perish With me in the grave.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

II is shown by statistical information
that during little more than year past
the net imports of gold into the United
States have amounted TO S40,0OO,O0O,
which, added to the gold product of the
country for the same period, makes the
total addition to the gold holdings of the
country $70,000,0C0. Where now are the
arguments of the gold bugs who insisted
that the continued production and coin
age Of silver must drive the gold out OF
Union and greatly contract the cur
rency?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

cumstances. A third great -
ing animals past their prins " st.s
COW is past s years she is Al h.. Wa
wen cared Tor she will become r ~
more valuable up to this go; Io's I
which she declines; becomes ys.., q
less for final disposition. live
these suggestions may lead II ''ll
airy depression in the meat 'sSe
market end an advance in n. 1ll
good stock if the poor animal. . ,sls'
all suddenly put where thew va ~ Q
most good. But what ca6nos ~ %
should be put an end to at ones = y. y
good herd of COWS all paying ~. ~
bring more money to the own, p. y
average herd of 20, half of vbicb ~ ,-a'
loss. u"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

Is the Forum for September, Nicholas
2. Gilman says that the easiest and most
practicable solution of the labor problem
lies in the general application of the
principle OF profit sharing to modern
industry. Perhaps the principle Of pro-
htsharing might be applied still more
broadly and solve also the great problem
of taxation, ana incidentally some other
questions. For instance when tract of
land is held 10y a person or corporation
for speculative purposes, and great in
crease in value follows not from the in
dustry of the owner or from any improve
ments placed thereon, but from the i'm
provements of property all around by
others and a large increase of population
if the principle of protit-sharing were Gu
forced by good system of taxation, per
haps the tax levied upon the produce OF
mems Drawn and brain would not be SO
heavy This demand for a division of
the profits seems rather just and it
might lead TO an earlier sale of unim
proved land on easter terms to
those who would improve il, A coutem-
porary in speaking of Senator Ingalls,
remarks as TO the probable necessity Of
coma est, for more land, says there is
land in plenty all over the country that
needs cultivation, That is nn true, but
yhen the poor man attempts to cultivate
1t and has to pay o heavy tax for the
privilege to q private owner in addition
to the TAX he pays for the support of the
government, he finds there is poor re-
turn left for his labor, and SO he goes
into new regions where he can get lands
on which he does not have to pay heavy
tax on profits not earned by the holder
of the land, but by the people at large.
IL is this reut-free land which is growing
scarce in these listed States ana for
which Senator Ingalls, thinks We must
provide 10y conquest. But that would
only pat of the evil day little longer
and true craftsmanship would try to
reach the root Of the evil. Perhaps the
principle of profit sharing will prove to
be the remedyS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

This will De one Of the notable years ia
tho business history of the country.
Something has been added 20 the grand
total of national wealth, but the record
is one of unusual commercial commotion.
Many thousands of niles have been ad-
ded to the iron railway systems aid mil
lions and millions of dollars have gone
into new and experimental fields of en-
terprise. The money centers have been
drained steadily producing financial
stringenoy and causing a collapse Of in
Vulnerable bubbles, The withdrawal of
capital from railroad and other kindred
securities has caused general tumble IN
the speculative share and bond market,
and this loss of property is once more
getting down where 1t belongs, The
wind and water is being pretty we'll
squeezed out of ballooned stocks and
values are determined by the dividend
paying capacity of the property repre-
sented by the chromos dealt in on the
exchanges. The shrinkage has been
the expense of enormous paper losse
which, unhappily, have not fallen
entirely upon the speculative
classes. There has been a vast
increase in the value of mining property
iron taking the lead, but this enhance
ment is as yet largely underground, anc
not in shape to realize on. New agricul
tural area to the extent Of millions %
acres has been opened MP, yet 1T Is
question if the agricultural classes of tn,
north, as a uholo will be able TO carry
forward a balance to the profit side oil
the ledger. The south has been blessed
with extraordinary food and cotton crops
and the harvests of the east have turned
out well, but the great west will suffer &
loss Of probably $2ooooOOOo from di
minished corn, hay and potato crops
But for the fact that it is a great west
this enormous loss would mean over
whelming ruin, but year or two o
general prosperity will heal the sore anC
leave ouly an unpleasant memory as ,
reminder. What in most countries of tn,
earth would mean an oyerpowering nat
tional calamity is in America local af
fair, Surely We are living in a wonder
full and in mighty age.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
A Couple Of Rare Mules.
Knoxville Tenn Journal.

huuNNIIt I ItHI,I JUUTndT.
There is mule on the property of the
Proctor Coal Company, near Jellico, Civ
ing nearly two gallons of milk per day.
She is MIXED regularly night and morn
ing by the stable boy. She has been
milking for two weeks and bids fair to
beat the Jersey record.
Capt Tom Brabson, well known
farmer living on the French Broad River,
near Boyd's Greek, is the owner of a
white mule 45 years of age. The veneer
able beast was kept in the harness until
two years ago, when he was retired on a
pension. He has been in possession of
the mule for thirtyseven years and can
Youch for his age.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

1HE schedules in the assignment of
Henry Ives g. Co., show their liabilities
to be $17,76GO00 and nominal assets,
S25,664, 600
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

THERE were one hundred and twenty
SIX victims of the Chatsworth horror.
One hundred and twenty-six years in the
penitentiary, divided equitably among
the managem emit of the road, woald be
about the right thing. T.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
CRIME.

ISa fit OF jealousy at Omaha, Jacob
Albiec fatally shothis wife and then killed
himself.
AT PELLA. Iowa, Thursday was finished
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15

LABOR men of Brooklyn want to run
Norman i. Monroe, the fiction publish
er for mayor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-15
IN mo whole nIdeons Catalogue

odds there were none which previous to the
j >eavery of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, offer.
.l more formidable resistance to the old fashion
I'D modes OF treatment than the group Of nalo
dies which. under the collective name OK
r.a'ar.a disease, afflicted entire communities
,.at suffered hopeIessy. lhills and fever, dumb
.,.,. aeue cake and bilious rrmitient were once
r..so.lel as well nigh iucuuhle Now &c relolce-s
..,. hearts of thousands who reside 90 districts
f.rat{ e.l,v subject 20 tile visitation Of malaria,
rs tert certain that ia the Bltters they possess q
certain defense against the sCourEe. sure means
ut fNu-ilug IFS poison from the system. ~ de
settler in tie far West the uew euugraut th.ther
.,I IT, travellers aud tourists by land and sea, the
r..>S,.sstou Of this pleasant safeguard is guar
attv 81 safety from diseases which they might
yamiy seek from any ether source.
A public analyst in London has called
attention to the necessity for the con
sumers of timed foods to eat them the
same day that the tins are opened. The
foods very rapidly begin to decompose,
and form the poisonous products known
IS "ptomaines,' especially in hot weather.
IL has generally been considered an in
dispeusable part OF the formality of tax
ing an oath in an English court that the
witness should remove his glove, if he
happened to wear one, before taking the
book in his hand. Recently a judge hs;
had the courage to give en- opinion that
there is room for doubt whether mar
may not swear perfectly good oath stir
/ bis CLOVIS on.